Caroliano
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April 2015 edit
It appears that you have been canvassing—leaving messages on a biased choice of users' talk pages to notify them of an ongoing community decision, debate, or vote—in order to influence User talk:Trustable. While friendly notices are allowed, they should be limited and nonpartisan in distribution and should reflect a neutral point of view. Please do not post notices which are indiscriminately cross-posted, which espouse a certain point of view or side of a debate, or which are selectively sent only to those who are believed to hold the same opinion as you. Remember to respect Wikipedia's principle of consensus-building by allowing decisions to reflect the prevailing opinion among the community at large. Thank you. ― Padenton|✉ 20:42, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
- I don't agree with that warning. Let me refute each of the 4 points in the Canvassing page:
- I haven't done mass messaging. I contacted a single user.
- I do think my message was quite neutral. I didn't even asked him to join the discussions or cast a vote, though you one may argue that it was implicit just by mentioning their existence. But that is not what this point talks about.
- If I wanted to do Votestacking, I would try to notify at least a couple of users so that it would "result in a numerical advantage". I don't think the Votestacking section is written in plural form by accident. Even so, why did I chose to reach that one user? If I wanted to sway favourable votes for the notability of those languages I could do much better than to reach the one user who specifically listed them because he thought they were not really notable. So why did I reached to his talk page? To notify him of the consequences of his post, otherwise he might never have known. I was a bit upset on he post ignoring all the discussion and wikipedia rules, so that was kinda on impulse. It is true that I also wanted for help to not let some articles being unfairly deleted because no-one had time to look for sources for them, but that wasn't the main reason, and in fact I did not even talk about it before you entered the discussion.
- I did post to his talk page, not off-wiki.
- Also, the fact that my supposed canvassing had absolutely no effect (unfortunately I can't see anyone else besides me finding sources for the languages in deletion review where I posted, but now I saw that some others received more attention) should raise some eyebrows on if it actually happened (and it didn't).
- Sorry again for the misunderstanding earlier, I didn't meant to stalk you. I only disagree with you on the threshold of notability that should be used to keep things on wikipedia or not. Caroliano (talk) 23:06, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Editor_assistance/Requests#Inappropriate_Actions_and_behavors_by_Editors_Padenton_and_Msnicki edit
I have mentioned you in Wikipedia:Editor_assistance/Requests#Inappropriate_Actions_and_behavors_by_Editors_Padenton_and_Msnicki and thought I would draw your attention to it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Itsmeront (talk • contribs) 08:14, 12 May 2015 (UTC)